everyone keeps claiming "they're here to stay" as if it's gospel. this constant drumbeat is rather tiresome and without much hard evidence.
Pakistan, Israel, North Korea and South Africa have nuclear weapons while not having the right to do so. So I'm not sure how banning graphics cards, thing we are already failing at in China right now will ever work. Especially if countries like China develop their own chip building capacities.
I'old enough to remember when GAN where going to be used to scam millions of people and flood social media with fake profiles.
I think such statements are likely projections of people's own unwillingness to part with such tools given their own personal perceived utility.
I, for one, wouldn't give up LLMs. Too useful to me personally. So, I will always seek them out.